so whats going to happen to these once i die?
i'm sure that no-one knows my passwords and i doubt my parents would know/care about any of these accounts. so theyre just going to hang there, in the void of cyberspace.
worried?

I suppose blogs and stuff will always be there but your email accounts will just die.
How long do myspace keep your account if you don't log in?

I guess the best thing would be to die in very, very suspicious and weird circumstances - that way the police might be able to get access to your web based mail. 50 years later the information becomes public doesn't it? I might be making that up.

people post messages on the facebook/myspace sites of the people who have died. It feels strange, and there's something creepy about it. It's also a bit horrible to think whether it's best 'deleting' someone who was a good friend from your friend list, or chance upon seeing their face every time you look at it.

have a policy of removing profiles when they know the person has died.

I suppose it is a little odd that people send messages to those pages but no more odd than leaving flowers on a grave and at least you know you're not standing six feet above your friend's rotting corpse.

Joshua Braggs (19) died 24 hours after shooting himself in the head during a game of Russian Roulette
A Lakeland teenager died from a self-inflicted gunshot in a game of Russian roulette, a spokeswoman for the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

Thats the latest one, kind of depressing looking threw it ya know. You hear of these things but coupled with their myspace pic its sadder. And the even sadder thing is it's mainly suicides...

how many people with DiS user accounts are now dead? And specifically, how many of the auxhiliary characters who have populated the boards just dropped dead one day (relatively speaking), and thus never posted again?

from way back when who got hit by a car after she left. There was an argument about it about a year back because someone linked one of her articles as an example of piss-poor writing, and Crablin went "you can't say that, she's dead" and the person replied "she may be dead but she's still a piss-poor writer"